Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of caverns or deep chasms; having caverns; formed like a cavern: as, “the cavern'd ground,”
- Inhabiting or found in a cavern: as, “cavern'd hermit,” ; “caverned gems,” Hemans, A Tale of the Fourteenth Century.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing caverns.
- adjective Living in a cavern.
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- adjective poetic Pitted or hollowed out with
caverns . - adjective Living in a
cavern .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A third flight of steps, cut in the rock like the former, but not caverned over, led them finally into the battery at the foot of the tower.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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Close to us, in the caverned side of the Peak, was snow that, owing to its position, is eternal.
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_Under the caverned pyramids great Set coils asleep; _
Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006
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It was this love of music that gave rise to one of the few truly humorous incidents of our caverned life.
The Moon Pool 2004
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Ahead the mist deepened into a ruddier glow; through it a long, dark line began to appear — the mouth I thought of the caverned space through which we were going; it was just before us; over us — we stood bathed in a flood of rubescence!
The Moon Pool 2004
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The sides were draped with ferns flourishing under the spray, and at the base the rock was very deeply caverned.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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Massive flows have fallen in, exposing caverned depths of jagged outlines.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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Akka prove that evolution in these caverned spaces has certainly pursued one different path than on earth.
The Moon Pool 2004
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There was a magnificent coast-line of grey cliffs many hundred feet in height, usually draped with green, but often black, caverned, and fantastic at their bases.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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We passed through the blue-caverned space, crossed the narrow arch that spanned the rushing sea stream, and, ascending, stood again upon the ivoried pave at the foot of the frowning, towering amphitheatre of jet.
The Moon Pool 2004
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